Title |
Author |
Year Published |
Theme |
Available in MU Library |
Is it a Choice? |
|
|
|
Yes |
A Hope in the Unseen |
Ron Suskind |
1999 |
First generation/ black student |
Yes |
A Journey into the Deaf-World |
Harlan Lane, Robert Hoffeister, Ben Bahan |
1996 |
Deaf/hard of hearing |
No |
America’s Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines |
Gail Collins |
2007 |
Struggles of American women |
Yes |
Andrew Tobias, Best Little Boy in the World |
|
|
LGBTQ |
Yes |
Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” |
Zora Neale Hurston |
2018 |
Race and ethnicity |
Yes |
Between the World and Me |
Ta-Nehisi Coates |
2015 |
Race, classism, social justice, and privilege |
Yes |
Charles Blow’s new memoir, Fire in my Bones |
|
|
LGBTQ |
Yes |
Daisy Hernandez, Cup of Water Under my Bed |
|
|
LGBTQ |
Yes |
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen |
Jose Antonio Vargas |
2018 |
Political, Emigration and Immigration |
Yes |
Debating Race |
Michael Eric Dyson |
2007 |
Class conflicts in the African American Community, government bias, civil rights |
Yes |
Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot |
John Callahan |
1990 |
Disability, sexuality, American welfare and political systems |
Yes |
Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club |
Benjamin Alire Saenz |
2012 |
Sexuality, gender, Mexican-American culture, poverty, addiction |
Yes |
Eyes of Desire 2: A Deaf GLBT Reader |
Raymond Luczak |
2007 |
Deaf/lgbt |
No |
Feminism Is For Everybody: Passionate Politics (2nd edition) |
Bell Hooks |
2015 |
Feminism, race, class, gender |
Yes |
I Survived the Killing Fields |
Seng Kok Ung |
2011 |
Racism, Communism |
Yes |
I’m Walking as Straight as I Can |
Geri Jewell |
2011 |
Disability awareness/LGBTQ |
Yes |
Imogene Binnie’s Nevada |
|
|
LGBTQ |
No |
Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Aren’t the Only Fruit |
|
|
LGBTQ |
Yes |
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s |
John Elder Robison |
2007 |
Disability awareness |
Yes |
Lotería |
Mario Alberto Zambrano |
2013 |
Mexican-American culture, gender, class, race |
Yes |
Man Up: Reimaging Modern Manhood |
Carlos Andrés Gómez |
2012 |
Gender, masculinity, equity, culture |
No |
Mapping Decline |
|
|
|
Yes |
New Jim Crow |
|
|
Racism |
Yes |
Part Asian, 100% Hapa |
Kip Fulbeck |
2006 |
Age, racism, Hawaiian culture, ethnicity |
Yes |
Privilege, Power and Difference |
Allan G. Johnson |
2005 |
Privilege, acceptance, and difference in American society |
No |
Race Matters |
Cornel West |
2001 |
African American issues, leadership, affirmative action, black- Jewish relations sexuality |
Yes |
Racism Without Racist |
|
|
Racism |
Yes |
Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry |
Mildred D. Taylor |
2004 |
Segregation, bigotry, racism, poverty, and ethnicity issues |
Yes |
Stamped from the Beginning |
|
|
Racism |
Yes |
Still Me |
Christopher Reeve |
1999 |
Life-altering disability, struggles, personal acceptance |
No |
Tears We Cannot Stop |
|
|
Racism |
Yes |
Thank You for Your Service |
David Finkel |
2017 |
War, veterans |
Yes |
The Color of Law |
|
|
Racism |
Yes |
The Color Purple |
Alice Walker |
1982 |
Power, privilege, race, women’s rights |
Yes |
The Common Good |
Robert B. Reich |
2018 |
Philosophy, Business, Domestic Politics |
Yes |
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time |
Mark Haddon |
2004 |
Autism and children |
Yes |
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky |
Heidi Durrow |
2010 |
Race, mixed race, identity, minority experiences |
Yes |
The House on Mango Street |
Sandra Cisneros |
2009 |
Gender, equality, equity, Mexican-American culture, race |
Yes |
The Kite Runner |
Khaled Hosseini |
2004 |
Political turmoil in Afghanistan and struggles of leaving |
Yes |
The New Jim Crow: mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness |
Michelle Alexandar |
2015 |
Race, criminal justice system, incarceration, social justice |
Yes |
The Way I See It |
|
|
|
No |
The Way I See it: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger’s (Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition) |
Temple Grandin, Ph.D. |
2011 |
Disabilities; autism and aspergers vs. neurotypical |
Yes |
There Are No Children Here |
Alex Kotlowitz |
1992 |
Inner city pathology, race, minority experiences |
Yes |
Uprooting Racism |
|
|
Racism |
Yes |
Waist-high In the World |
Nancy Mairs |
1997 |
Life with a disability |
Yes |
What Are You? Voices of Mixed-Race Young People |
Pearl Fuyo Gaskins |
1999 |
Race, gender, age, ethnicity, cultural transition, customs |
No |
White like Me |
|
|
Racism |
Yes |
White Like Me: Reflections of a Privileged Son |
Tim Wise |
2007 |
Race, privilege |
Yes |
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversaions About Race |
Beverly Daniel Tatum |
2017 |
Racism, privilege |
Yes |
Yellow |
|
|
Racism |
No |